Seattle Library Designed With Homeless In Mind
By Nabeel in Blogroll, Libraries Change Lives Campaign | 2 comments
Many individuals overlook the potential of libraries to help the homeless pull their lives together. The Seattle Post Intelligencer published an article on how Seattle’s latest central library built four years ago was built with the homeless in mind. Enjoy!
Nancy Pearl keeps telling this story about the homeless man in the library, because — landmark new building or not — the problems he represented still exist:
She was walking in the old Central Library when the man stepped out, holding an iron. He was looking for an electrical outlet, she said, and couldn’t find one in the men’s bathroom. He had a job interview. He needed to iron his shirt.
Pearl, director of the Washington Center for the Book, led him upstairs and let him iron in her own office. His plight still brings tears to her eyes.
…The new library was designed with those issues in mind.
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